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Several cities to celebrate anniversary of Poe's birth
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Published: November 9, 2008
Updated: 11/09/2008 12:15 am
BALTIMORE -- Baltimore, the city where Edgar Allan Poe died, will celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth with "Nevermore 2009," a year's worth of exhibitions and programs.
Activities will include a one-man show, POE in Person at the Baltimore Theatre Project; a wine tasting inspired by Poe's sadistic revenge tale The Cask of Amontillado in the catacombs beneath Westminster Hall, a former church in west Baltimore; and exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Enoch Pratt Free Library. The Web site for the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore has a link to the Baltimore Poe House and Museum, www.eapoe.org/. Details on the festival are at www.Nevermore2009.com.
Poe died in Baltimore in 1849 and is buried there at the Westminster Burying Grounds.
Poe was raised in Richmond, where the Edgar Allan Poe Museum --www.poemuseum.org -- is planning lectures, exhibitions and workshops. For details, see www.poe200th.com. Poe wrote many of his enduring works in Philadelphia, and one of the houses where he lived is now the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site, managed by the National Park Service. He also lived for a time in the Bronx, in what today is called the Poe Cottage. His wife died there and he wrote some of his classics there, including "Annabel Lee." Poe's birthplace in Boston is no longer standing.
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